"of David Sutton, played by David Hartman (later longtime anchor on ABC's ""Good Morning America"" morning news/features program). However, Sutton was replaced in season 8 with a younger hand, Jim Horn (played by Tim Matheson). In season 9 (1970–71), the name of the program was changed to The Men from Shiloh and the look of the series was completely redesigned. Ownership of the Shiloh Ranch was changed once more, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie (Stewart Granger) took over. Granger said of his character: They had some idea of Col. Mackenzie against the West. I wanted no part of that. Englishmen were"
"evenly split between movies and television episodes, were filmed at the ranch during its peak years. The long-running TV western ""The Virginian"" filmed on location at Iverson in the ranch's later period, as did ""Bonanza"" and ""Gunsmoke."" By the 1960s, the ownership of the ranch was split between two of Karl and Augusta's sons, with Joe Iverson, an African safari hunter married to Iva Iverson, owning the southern half of the ranch (the Lower Iverson) and Aaron Iverson, a farmer married to Bessie Iverson, owning the northern half (the Upper Iverson). In the mid-1960s the state of California began construction"
"The Virginian (novel) The Virginian (otherwise titled ""The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains)"" is a 1902 novel set in the Wild West by the American author Owen Wister, (1860-1938). It describes the life of a cowboy on a cattle ranch in Wyoming and was the first true fictional western ever written, aside from short stories and pulp dime novels. ""The Virginian"" paved the way for many more westerns by such authors as Zane Grey, Louis L'Amour, and several others. The Virginian is a ranch hand at the Sunk Creek Ranch, located outside of Medicine Bow, Wyoming. His friend Steve"
"as the lead character for the novel ""The Virginian"" and the later television show. Bar U Ranch The Bar U Ranch National Historic Site, located near Longview, Alberta, is a preserved ranch that for 70 years was one of the leading ranching operations in Canada. At its peak, the ranch extended over with 30,000 cattle and 1000 Percheron horses. Two owners were instrumental in the establishment of the Calgary Stampede, forming part of the Big Four. The ranch was founded by Fred Stimson, whose North West Cattle Company kept cattle on of open range between 1881 and 1902. Stimson used"
"The Wilderness (Deerfield, Virginia) The Wilderness is a historic estate at 13954 Deerfield Road in rural Bath County, Virginia, United States. It consists of more than of rolling fields and woodlands, most of which lie southeast of Deerfield Road in the northeastern part of the county. In 1771, the Crown conveyed the land to brothers Sampson Mathews and George Mathews. The main house, a seven-bay brick Georgian structure, was built about 1816 for Samuel Blackburn, a prominent local farmer and politician, who was son-in-law to George Mathews. The property also includes a brick carriage house from the same period, a"
"Llangollen Farm Llangollen Farm is an historic American horse and cattle farm located in western Loudoun County, Virginia on Trappe Rd. near Upperville at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Eight miles (13 km) from the town of Middleburg, the area is home to a number of prominent Thoroughbred-breeding farms and a large country estates. The farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. Llangollen, which means Church of St. Gall in the Welsh language, was originally part of a land grant on which a two-story manor house was built in the late 1770s. Over"
"is another historic ranch house owned by the Hale family. Located along the San Rafael Valley road, the home was originally the headquarters for the Ernest Best Ranch, and was used as a filming location for several Western films. The opening scene of the 1971 made-for-television film ""Wild Rovers"", starring William Holden and Ryan O'Neal, was shot in the living room of the ranch house. Hale Ranch The Hale Ranch is a working cattle ranch headquartered in the ghost town of Harshaw, in the Patagonia Mountains of southeastern Arizona. Hale Ranch was founded in 1915 by farmer and homesteader Richard"
"The Farm (Rocky Mount, Virginia) The Farm is a historic home located at Rocky Mount, Franklin County, Virginia. The house was probably built during the late-18th century, expanded in the 1820s, and heavily remodeled in the Greek Revival style around 1856. It is a two-story, frame dwelling sheathed in weatherboard with a single-pile, central-passage-plan. It features a two-story, projecting front porch. Later additions were made in the late-19th and early-20th century. Also on the property are a contributing one-story brick slave quarters/summer kitchen and the site of a farm office marked by a stone chimney. The house was used as"
"the Judge. When making the show, the producers chose not to reveal the Virginian's real name, and little about his past was actually made known. This succeeded in making the Virginian an intriguing and mysterious character. The foreman worked under five ranch owners throughout the series: Judge Garth (Lee J. Cobb), Morgan Starr (John Dehner), John Grainger (Charles Bickford), Clay Grainger (John McIntire), and Col. Alan Mackenzie (Stewart Granger). James Drury and Doug McClure were the only cast members to remain with the show for all nine seasons. James Drury first played The Virginian on the July 6, 1958 episode"
"rarity in such a remote rural setting. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. The Wilderness (Deerfield, Virginia) The Wilderness is a historic estate at 13954 Deerfield Road in rural Bath County, Virginia, United States. It consists of more than of rolling fields and woodlands, most of which lie southeast of Deerfield Road in the northeastern part of the county. In 1771, the Crown conveyed the land to brothers Sampson Mathews and George Mathews. The main house, a seven-bay brick Georgian structure, was built about 1816 for Samuel Blackburn, a prominent local farmer and"
"of Historic Places in 2006. Valley Mill Farm Valley Mill Farm, also known as Eddy's Mill, William Helm House, and Helm/Eddy House, is a historic home and farm located near Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia, USA. The house was built about 1820, and is a two-story, four bay, Federal style dwelling with a gable roof. It has a 1 1/2-story wing dated to the mid-19th century. Also on the property are a contributing former two-story mill (c. 1820, now veterinary office), a frame two-story tenant house (c. 1890), a storage shed, and the ruins of two small, unidentified buildings. It was"
"Valley Mill Farm Valley Mill Farm, also known as Eddy's Mill, William Helm House, and Helm/Eddy House, is a historic home and farm located near Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia, USA. The house was built about 1820, and is a two-story, four bay, Federal style dwelling with a gable roof. It has a 1 1/2-story wing dated to the mid-19th century. Also on the property are a contributing former two-story mill (c. 1820, now veterinary office), a frame two-story tenant house (c. 1890), a storage shed, and the ruins of two small, unidentified buildings. It was listed on the National Register"
"Tree Hill (Richmond, Virginia) Tree Hill near Richmond, Virginia, in Henrico County, Virginia, is a Greek Revival style plantation house overlooking the James River about two miles east of downtown Richmond near the intersection of the historic Osborne Turnpike and New Market Road. Currently still a private farm, but expected to become partly a park after housing and commercial development, it was once owned by Richmond distiller and landowner Franklin Stearns, a prominent Unionist during the American Civil War. Centuries earlier, it had been a Native American camp site, and the birthplace of powerful chief Powhatan (d.1618). On the night"
"running cattle here from the beginning. The English have this thing for land; for animals and crops... I said this old cocker's out of India and the colonies: he can take the American west on his own terms. In several countries, including the United Kingdom, the show went under the extended title The Virginian: Men From Shiloh.<ref name=""http://ctva.biz/US/Western/Virginian/V-homepage.htm""></ref> The opening theme song was changed to a new one, composed by Ennio Morricone, and the look of the show was changed reflecting a style similar to spaghetti westerns, which were very popular at the time.<ref name=""https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xna6GjwSJ0""></ref> The hats worn featured much"
"on October 9, 1960. Mount Airy Plantation Mount Airy, near Warsaw in Richmond County, Virginia, built in 1764, is a mid-Georgian plantation house, the first built in the manner of a neo-Palladian villa. Colonel John Tayloe II, perhaps the richest Virginia planter of his generation, constructed it. His daughter Rebecca and her husband, Francis Lightfoot Lee, one of the only pair of brothers to sign the Declaration of Independence (Richard Henry Lee being the other brother,) are buried on the estate, as are many other Tayloes. Before the American Civil War, Mount Airy was a prominent racing horse farm, as"
"Savage's Station, Virginia Savage's Station was the wartime name of a supply depot, ammunition dump, field hospital, and command headquarters of the Army of the Potomac during the Peninsula Campaign of the American Civil War. Savage's Station was located in Henrico County, Virginia on what was the Richmond and York River Railroad, however the historical department of the Norfolk Southern Railroad, the railroad track's current owner, has no record that an actual train station or station house ever existed on the property. A farmhouse is known to have been located in a copse of trees on a small knoll next"
"The Virginian (1929 film) The Virginian is a 1929 American Pre-Code Western film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Gary Cooper, Walter Huston, and Richard Arlen. The film was based on the 1902 novel ""The Virginian"" by Owen Wister and adapted from the popular 1904 theatrical play Wister had collaborated on with playwright Kirke La Shelle. ""The Virginian"" is about a good-natured cowboy who romances the new schoolmarm and has a crisis of conscience when he learns his best friend is involved in cattle rustling. The film is well known for Cooper's line, ""If you wanna call me that—smile"", in"
"Towlston Grange Towlston Grange is an 18th-century plantation in Great Falls in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The estate served as a residence for several prominent members of the Fairfax family. Towlston Grange is located at 1213 Towlston Road in Great Falls. There is a photograph of Bryan Fairfax's Towlston Grange in its unrestored state, taken by ""The Rambler"" of the Washington, D.C. Evening Star newspaper in 1918, that shows a -story clapboarded house built in the English tradition.[4] William Fairfax acquired several thousand acres on Difficult Run from his cousin Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron and named"
"Commonwealth of Virginia at Richmond. Using bricks fired on the Berkeley plantation, Benjamin Harrison IV built a Georgian-style two-story brick mansion on a hill overlooking the James River in 1726. Harrison's son, Benjamin Harrison V, a signer of the American Declaration of Independence and a Governor of Virginia, was born at Berkeley Plantation, as was his son William Henry Harrison, a war hero in the Battle of Tippecanoe, governor of Indiana Territory, and ninth President of the United States. Berkeley would later earn a distinction shared only with Peacefield in Quincy, Massachusetts as the ancestral home for two United States"
"The Willows (Moorefield, West Virginia) ""The Willows"", also known as Randolph House, is a historic home located near Moorefield, Hardy County, West Virginia. It was built in three sections in a telescoping style. It consists of One small log house, a middle section of frame, and a brick mansion all connected end-to-end. The oldest section is the 1 1/2 story log structure built before 1773. The main section is a two-story, brick Greek Revival style mansion house. It features a square columned entrance porch. During the American Civil War, McNeill's Rangers used the farm for care of some of their"
"became an annual publication in the spring of 1997. Just within the western boundary of the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming, there is an 11,490-foot mountain named Mount Wister, named for Owen Wister. Near a house that Wister built near La Mesa, California, but never occupied due to his wife's death, is a street called Wister Drive. In the same neighborhood are Virginian Lane and Molly Woods Avenue (named for a character in ""The Virginian""). All of those streets were named by Wister himself. Many movie industry historians will agree that most, if not all, westerns can be claimed"
"Berkeley Plantation Berkeley Plantation, one of the first slave rearing estates in America, comprises about on the banks of the James River on State Route 5 in Charles City County, Virginia. Berkeley Plantation was originally called Berkeley Hundred and named after the Berkeley Company of England. Benjamin Harrison IV built on the estate what is believed to be the oldest three-story brick mansion in Virginia and is the ancestral home to two Presidents of the United States: William Henry Harrison, his grandson, and Benjamin Harrison his great-great-grandson. It is now a museum property, open to the public. Among the many"
"Soldier's Rest Soldier's Rest is a historic farmhouse located in Berryville, Clarke County, Virginia. It was constructed about 1780 for the family of William Morton, it was later owned and added to by Daniel Morgan, a general in the American Revolution, and by Col Griffin Taylor, a veteran of the War of 1812, perhaps giving the home its name ""Soldier's Rest"". Prior to the current house being built, a smaller one stood some 200 yards away, and said to be the place where George Washington stayed when he was surveying the land here for Lord Fairfax in 1748. It was"
"Ash sold the Llangollen estate sold for $22 million to a corporation controlled by American businessman Donald P. Brennan and his wife, Patricia. Daughter Maureen oversees the property and has formed the VIPolo Club training facility. Llangollen Farm Llangollen Farm is an historic American horse and cattle farm located in western Loudoun County, Virginia on Trappe Rd. near Upperville at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Eight miles (13 km) from the town of Middleburg, the area is home to a number of prominent Thoroughbred-breeding farms and a large country estates. The farm was listed on the National Register"
"typically a portrayal of an Indian attack on a settler's cabin. Cody would ride in with an entourage of cowboys to defend a settler and his family. This finale was featured predominantly as early as 1886 but was not performed after 1907; it was used in 23 of 33 tours. Another celebrity appearing on the show was Calamity Jane, as a storyteller as of 1893. The show influenced many 20th-century portrayals of the West in cinema and literature. With his profits, Cody purchased a 4,000-acre (16-km²) ranch near North Platte, Nebraska, in 1886. The Scout's Rest Ranch included an eighteen-room"
"(killed in Gen. Wade Hampton’s “Beefsteak Raid” behind Union lines near Petersburg, Virginia, in 1864), and Traveler’s Rest (1856; constructed for Garrett Van Meter’s three unmarried sisters: Ann, Rebecca, and Susan). Old Fields, West Virginia Old Fields is an unincorporated community on the South Branch Potomac River in northern Hardy County, West Virginia, USA. According to the Geographic Names Information System, Old Fields has also been known throughout its history as Indian Old Field, Indian Old Fields, and Oldfields. The community was named for the fact the original town site was an Indian old field. Other buildings of interest in"
"role for which actor Doug McClure was best known. Several cast changes were made throughout the program's run. In the first four seasons (1962-1966), the owner of the ranch was Judge Henry Garth (Lee J. Cobb). His ""de facto"" daughter Betsy (Roberta Shore) lived at the ranch with him, and had a sister relationship with the ranch hands. Ranch hand Steve Hill (Gary Clarke) joined in episode storylines. Randy Boone joined the show in the second season as a youthful ranch hand who played guitar and sang duets with Betsy.<ref name=""http://ctva.biz/US/Western/Virginian/V050.htm""></ref> (In 1965 Decca Records released an LP of songs"
"Wolfe Ranch The Wolfe Ranch, also known as Turnbow Cabin, is located in Arches National Park near Moab, Utah, United States. John Wesley Wolfe settled in the location in 1888 with his oldest son Fred. A nagging leg injury from the Civil War prompted Wolf to move west from Ohio, looking for a drier climate. He chose this tract of more than along Salt Wash for its water and grassland - enough for a few cattle. The Wolfes built a one-room cabin, a corral, and a small dam across Salt Wash. For more than a decade they lived alone on"
"and other wild animals. His animals became a visiting point of sort over time. He was a trapper and one of the founders of the Game Farm, (now called the West Virginia State Wildlife Center). French Creek, West Virginia French Creek is an unincorporated community in Upshur County, West Virginia, United States. French Creek is 9½ miles south of the county seat, Buckhannon, West Virginia, on West Virginia Route 20. It is home to the West Virginia State Wildlife Center — formerly the ""French Creek Game Farm"" — a zoological park featuring native and introduced fauna. Popular exhibits at the"
"the National Register of Historic Places in 2016. Thorndale Farm Thorndale Farm is a historic farm property at 652 North Buckton Road, in rural Frederick County, Virginia east of Middletown. The property, over in size, includes a wood-frame farmhouse built about 1790 and enlarged and restyled in the Greek Revival about 1855, as well as a later 19th-century barn and a c. 1840 meathouse. It was originally part of a much larger land grant made to John Larrock, a militia captain the American Revolutionary War. Part of the farm was involved in the 1864 Battle of Cedar Creek in the"
"Beebe Ranch Beebe Ranch is an American horse ranch and museum located at 3062 Ridge Road, Chincoteague, Virginia. The museum closed in 2010. Six years later Beebe Ranch re-opened on July 27, 2016. The museum focused on two Chincoteague Ponies, Misty and her foal Stormy, featured in the novels ""Misty of Chincoteague"" (1947) and ""Stormy, Misty's Foal"" (1963) by Marguerite Henry. Misty and Stormy resided at the ranch and their taxidermically preserved figures were displayed at the museum for many years. Misty had stayed in the house at the ranch during the Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962, a major winter"
"and is operated as a country inn. The plantation was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Warner Hall Warner Hall is a historic plantation in Gloucester County, Virginia. It was established in 1642 by a grant to Augustine Warner, progenitor of many prominent First Families of Virginia, and great-great grandfather of President George Washington. The history of the plantation includes association with Bacon's Rebellion when it was sacked by the rebels who confiscated goods amounting to £845, or the equivalent of what 40 slaves or servants would produce in a year, and it was the home"
"in a special celebration of James Drury's 80th birthday at the show. She attended as guest star, the largest cast reunion of ""The Virginian"" assembled at the Cowboy Up for Vets Horse Show held on April 22–24, 2016 in Swanton, OH. Other cast members who attended were James Drury, Roberta Shore, Gary Clarke, L.Q. Jones, Randy Boone, Clu Gulager, Sara Lane, Don Quine and Joe Cannon. Diane Roter Diane Roter is an American actress best known for her appearances in the long-running TV western ""The Virginian"" in its fourth season, which ran from 1965 to 1966. She then appeared in"